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5 days ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino
The Josh Hartnett renaissance is in full swing, and we’re all the better for it. The past few years have seen a major surge for the star who broke out at the turn of the century across horror hits (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Faculty), emotionally packed teen dramas (The Virgin Suicides, O) and major blockbusters (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down).
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1 week ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Matt Goldberg
So goes the iconic tagline for 2005’s equally iconic House of Wax, a watershed moment in the grunge horror era of early 21st century Hollywood cinema. While other films of this wave have seen their stocks falter as they age, Jaume Collet-Serra’s loose remake of André de Toth’s 1953 Vincent Price-starring chiller about a murderer who encases his victims in wax sculptures has only grown in stature.
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2 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Katie Rife |Dominic Corry
When a director is responsible for what Letterboxd members describe as “single-handedly the best action movie I [have] ever seen,” you make sure to stand to attention whenever they’ve got a new release coming. After spending some time in the world of television with Gangs of London, Welsh action maestro Gareth Evans (The Raid, The Raid 2) is back to feature filmmaking.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino |Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy can do it all. Born in Manhattan to an award-winning playwright father and a sculptor-writer mother, for many years he pursued a career as a musician before abandoning tunes when he discovered his knack for screenwriting. Gilroy saw his work on screen for the first time at the age of 36 with 1992’s ice-skating rom-com The Cutting Edge, following it up with a stunning run of success from aching dramas (Dolores Claiborne) to operatic thrillers (The Devil’s Advocate).
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Dominic Corry |Shayna Maci Warner
Angela Robinson made her spy spoof gay rom-com D.E.B.S. the year after Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle hit theaters. As Roger Ebert noted in his 1.5-star review, Robinson’s lesbian spin on hot girls with guns felt like a direct response to that revitalized franchise. But D.E.B.S. wasn’t just a queering of the recent Charlie’s Angels films—or other new female action franchises like Lara Croft and Resident Evil—it was a satire.
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1 month ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Ella Kemp
From the beginning of his career, even as far back as his 1981 short film Peep Show, Atom Egoyan has been interested in the act of watching. What observation of others tells us about them, but just as much so what it says about ourselves. Rarely has that theme been more potent than in Exotica, released 30 years ago and standing strong as the director’s highest-rated film on Letterboxd.
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2 months ago | 
letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Mia Lee Vicino |Garry White |Wes Anderson
“This week, our community lost a giant,” Morgan Freeman said at the 97th Academy Awards, speaking to the passing of his former co-star and “dear friend” Gene Hackman. “Like everyone who has ever shared a scene with him,” the actor continued, “I learned he was a generous performer, and a man whose gifts elevated everyone’s work.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
letterboxd.com | David Lynch |Mark Frost |Mia Lee Vicino |Mitchell Beaupre
“In heaven, everything is fine.” In David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, the Lady in the Radiator sings these words. In 2025, at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, California, a piece of cardboard at the foot of the Big Boy statue spells them out in capital letters. It’s one amongst hundreds of other offerings for the late filmmaker, who dined here “for seven years every day at 2:30” and who passed away January 15—five days before what would have been his 79th birthday.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
thefilmstage.com | Mitchell Beaupre
Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” plays out as we pan down from the sky to find a mysterious man we’ll know only as Traveler (Jason Bateman) arriving to make a deal for an ominous suitcase, murdering everyone on sight before he acquires it. Within moments, Jaume Collet-Serra establishes the new Netflix action thriller Carry-On as festive fanfare that doesn’t fuck around.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Matt Goldberg |Annie Lyons |Mitchell Beaupre
In a line that has rattled around our collective cultural consciousness for more than twenty years, Nicolas Cage’s blockbuster hero Benjamin Franklin Gates solemnly intones his plan to protect one of America’s most treasured documents. By stealing it. “I’m going to steal the Declaration of Independence,” warns Gates, as he gazes over the legendary document while standing in the National Archives. In that pivotal moment of National Treasure, cinema history was made.
